Thomas J. King (June 4, 1921 – October 25, 2000) was an American
biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. They usually specialize in ...
.
Biography
With
Robert William Briggs, he worked on transplantation of somatic cell nuclei from adult frogs into enucleated
oocytes this leading to the first
clone
Clone or Clones or Cloning or Cloned or The Clone may refer to:
Places
* Clones, County Fermanagh
* Clones, County Monaghan, a town in Ireland
Biology
* Clone (B-cell), a lymphocyte clone, the massive presence of which may indicate a pathologi ...
of an animal in 1952. He was a scientist at the
Institute for Cancer Research of the Lankenau Hospital Research Institute (now known a
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research when the work was conducted. King and Briggs were awarded in 1972 the highest honor of the
French Academy: the
Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the
Académie des Sciences,
Institut de France and were the first Americans to be so honored.
References
1921 births
2000 deaths
20th-century American biologists
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